Neurodivergent Learner Support NILD Educational Therapy Neurodivergent Tutoring Neurodivergent Coaching

Who is Eagles Wings Therapies and Learning Support for?

Our learning center in Greenfield provides students with the tools to succeed in the traditional classroom setting.  Students that can be successful with our services are:

· Students behind peers in reading and math, writing skills and executive functioning.         

· Students with Learning Disorders/Disabilities

· Cognitively low functioning and slow learners

· Students with high functioning autism

· Students with ADHD

Students who struggle with the emotional fallout of having a “disability” or weakness that results in anxiety, fear, shame, and more.

· Not sure if your child would benefit? Give Debbie a call at 815-978-4055 or email her at debbie@debbieengle.com

Types of Therapeutic Services

How do you know if your child needs additional support and help? Read on to see the various tests we offer to help you determine your child’s needs.

Free Consultations: If you are not sure your child needs therapy or tutoring, we offer a one-hour free consultation to talk about your concerns and recommend evaluation services to help you decided. Please call Debbie at 915-978-4055 or email her at debbie@debbieengle.com.

NILD Educational Therapy: In order to receive the most comprehensive intervention addressing underlying perceptual and cognitive skills necessary for learning, a diagnosis of a Specific Learning Disability is necessary. Please call Debbie at 815-978-4055 or email her at debbie@debbieengle.com for more information and evaluation options.

· SEARCH and TEACH: a preventative program for K5 and 1st Graders. Testing is available at no cost. This will determine if your child is lacking the foundational skills to be successful. If there are gaps in your child’s foundational skills, then we can discuss interventions designed to address those gaps so that a child is more ready to learn reading and math. Please call Debbie at 815-978-4055 or email at debbie@debbieengle.com.

Tutoring for Neurodivergent Students: Our tutors are highly experienced in working with students who struggle to learn and may be on the Autism Spectrum or diagnosed with ADHD. Please call Debbie at 815-978-4055 or email her at debbie@debbieengle.com for more information.

· RX 4 Discovery Interventions: skills to catch up in reading, writing, or math. Techniques are based on NILD approaches but don’t include specific therapy techniques. Approaches include: phonics instruction, comprehension skills, phoneme and morpheme instruction, number sense, use of math skill building games and activities. Please call Debbie at 815-978-4055 or email at debbie@debbieengle.com.

The Woodcock Johnson IV – an achievement test and the industry standard to determine your child’s achievement levels compared to other students at the same grade level. The cost is $150 for the testing (90 minutes), scoring and a consultation with Debbie afterwards to determine next steps. Please call Debbie at 815-978-4055 or email debbie@debbieengle.com to learn more.

· Orton Gillingham Based Tutoring: Help to catch up in reading, math, and writing skills. Support is based on the Orton Gillingham approach with a curriculum for K-5th grade and a separate curriculum for Middle and High School students. Please call Debbie at 815-978-4055 or email debbie@debbieengle.com to talk more about how we can help.

Executive Functioning: build skills such as organization, time management, problem-solving, goal setting, etc. Please call Debbie at 815-978-4055 or email debbie@debbieengle.com to talk more about how we can help.

· Neurodivergence Coaching: For 12+ year old students, teenagers, young adults, and older who have been diagnosed with dyslexia or a reading disability, ADHD, and/or Autism. Coaching helps you to: reframe your “disability” into a strength, self-advocate in the workplace or school to receive the support you need, learn alternative ways to communicate and process your emotions and past experiences, and move forward with confidence and clarity in all areas of life. For a free consult, please call Debbie at 815-978-4055 or email debbie@debbieengle.com.

Why Use a Licensed NILD Therapist?

· Therapists receive standardized training to develop knowledge and practice standards that align with research-based best-practice methodologies.

· Therapists are held to high standards of ethical practice.

· Licensing protects the efficacy of NILD educational therapy methods.

· Licensing ensures your child is getting the highest quality educational intervention and support.

· Licensing ensures your child is receiving educational therapy proven to be effective. 

· For more information you can visit the NILD website at:  http://www.nild.org

How Does Therapy Help?

There are two basic approaches to dealing with learning disabilities—compensation and direct intervention..

Compensation

The first and most common is compensation—helping students work around their deficit areas by using their strengths.  In an academic setting, this usually takes the form of tutoring and classroom modifications, such as untimed tests and reduced workload. Compensation allows students to succeed with outside help, but leaves them limited in what they can do on their own.

Direct Intervention

The second approach is direct intervention—helping students strengthen their areas of deficit so they are no longer handicapped by them.  Teaching students HOW to learn allows students the eventual freedom of succeeding on their own as independent learners.

NILD Educational Therapy is a direct, language-based intervention for students with learning difficulties similar to occupational and speech therapies.  Our focus is to strengthen the underlying causes of learning difficulties rather than simply treating the symptoms. Our therapy is individualized and aims the intervention just above the student’s level of functioning and raises expectations for performance.  Students are trained to view themselves as competent, confident learners. 

More information about the educational services, components, and length and frequency of sessions are available by calling Debbie at 815-978-4055 or email debbie@debbieengle.com.

Who is Debbie Engle?

My name is Debbie Engle and I am an NILD  Trained Educator in the Greenfield, WI area. I am also a trained Neurodivergence Coach. I provide services in person at my home and online through the Google Meet platform at no extra cost.

My passion is to see learners reach their full potential in school and in life.  In my 25 years of teaching, I have worked with children with special needs and I am honored to help children with a variety of disabilities learn, grow and become wonderful, independent adults.

I am committed to walking with you and your child down the path of discovery as I evaluate and analyze your child’s strengths and struggles and then create a plan for educational services to meet your child’s educational needs and goals. 

I can include Neurodivergence Coaching as a part of therapy or tutoring sessions.

If you go to the NILD website and look up therapists in WI you will see that I am licensed with NILD.org and the certifications that I have earned.

Love and Logic Parenting Classes

I am an Independent Facilitator of Love and Logic Classes. Call me to talk about giving classes at your church, your homeschool group, or school. Please go to https://www.loveandlogic.com for more info about the program. Call Debbie at 815-978-4055 or email me at debbie@debbieengle.com for a conversation about how I can help you with parenting.

What Parents are Saying

I highly recommend Debbie Engle. She was an incredible therapist for my daughter Joy. Debbie help Joy significantly during the year she received therapy with her. My daughter has a tough personality, and Debbie found a way to relate and challenge her in ways I didn’t think possible. We are so thankful for the year Joy was blessed to have her has a therapist. Grace M.

I highly recommend Debbie Engle as she works with children who are struggling. I brought my son to her at age 7, struggling, unable to read near grade level and unable to retain basic math facts, and he just completed 4th grade having made straight A’s for the year. I could not be more grateful for her patience and her loving care for each individual child. I appreciate her expertise and her creativity in teaching. And I know that my son would not be where he is without her.   Ragan D.

NILD therapy with Mrs. Engle made all the difference. We spent thousands on tutoring, and hours re-teaching daily lessons and concepts from school, cried over homework and reading simple books-“I can’t do it mama.” After just a few sessions of NILD therapy, we began to see a difference. Now we have a confident 4th grader who wants to try the hard words, spontaneously reads-literally everything in front of him. He would not have made the progress he has without NILD therapy and Mrs. Engle’s help. TJ M